Publication
Title
A GIS-tool to identify ecosystem services delivered by smart sediment management strategies
Author
Boerema, A.
Van der Biest, K.
Vrebos, D.
Buis, K.
Meire, P.
Taal, M.
van Holland, G.
Mestdagh, S.
Ysebaert, T.
Roose, F.
Abstract
Implementing ‘Working with nature’ in sediment management means the development of sediment management strategies that are more cost-effective and include additional environmental benefits by supporting the creation of specific habitats. Such a smart sediment strategy may not only improve the status of protected areas and species, but at the same time provides multiple socio-economic benefits, known as ecosystems services. Although ecosystem services is considered a key concept to guide sustainable management, practical tools to apply the concept in an estuarine context were found to be missing. In this paper we introduce a GIS-tool that identifies the benefits from ecosystem services in estuaries and links these to several sediment management measures. The tool allows managers to investigate and demonstrate the effects of different sediment management strategies on the delivery of ecosystem services. State-of-the-art knowledge on ecosystem processes and the relationships with ecosystem services were used to develop the impact calculation rules. Following ecosystem services can be assessed: food production (mussels, shrimp and sole), water quality regulation, flood regulation, raw materials provisioning, navigation, climate regulation, recreation (on-shore, swimming and recreational navigation) and habitat support (for seals, breeding birds and wading birds). The practicability and validity of the tool is tested on a series of smart sediment management strategies in the transboundary Scheldt delta.
Language
English
Source (book)
Proceedings CEDA Dredging Days, 7-8 November 2019, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Publication
CEDA , 2019
Volume/pages
11 p.
Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
  https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/iruaauth/93e9bd/164078.pdf
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Faculty of Sciences. Biology 
Research group
Project info
Global Ecosystem Functioning and Interactions with Global Change.
Publication type
P3 Proceeding 
Subject
Biology 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Record
Identifier c:irua:164078
Creation 25.11.2019
Last edited 17.06.2024
To cite this reference
https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1640780151162165141